Luck turns bad for offender
When Jackson Daniel Skipper dodged jail for his part in an incident that ended with a man being shot in the stomach, a judge told him he was lucky.
But the 29-year-old’s luck may have run out.
Skipper appeared in the Palmerston North District Court yesterday, via an audio-visual link from Whanganui Prison, charged with breaching home detention.
He is a touch more than two months into a 10-month home detention sentence for reckless discharge of a firearm.
The shooting happened on August 29, 2017, when he and another man went to a property in Highbury, Palmerston North.
A man there was shot in the stomach by Skipper’s associate, while the other people in the house ran away.
The offenders taunted the injured man, passing the gun between them.
Skipper fired a shot at the side of the house.
The two men were arrested at a later date.
Skipper was arrested recently for the apparent breach. Stuff understands he allegedly cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet.
Defence lawyer Richard Bedford said Skipper opposed his sentence being changed to a prison term instead.
Because the shooting resulted in Skipper getting a second strike under the threestrikes legislation, he would have to serve a prison term in full.
Bedford also applied for electronically monitored bail on Skipper’s behalf.
Although Bedford went into more detail about the reason why Skipper allegedly breached his sentence, it cannot be reported as it was part of a bail application and such information is usually suppressed.
Judge Lance Rowe declined bail, keeping Skipper in custody until February.